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ISPF HILITE PLI - keywords missing

The IBM supplied ISP.SISPSAMP(ISRPXASM) from z/OS 2.1 (RSU1504?) lacks four PL/I keywords
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 7 Planned for future release

Enable DIAGxx operator command parameter modification function

The ability to be able to issue an Operator command would enable real-time dynamic modification to the individual DIAGxx parameters without the need (or permission/authority) to update a PARMLIB member. This would also enable automation code (Rexx...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance 126char console command limit

A z/OS Console Command is limited to 126 char. For me this is a similar bad limitation as the 100 char jcl parm-limit before z/OS 2.1 (which is lifted now with PARMDD etc.) I´d like to have 1024char.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

RACFVM: Provide commands to display the current MFA server and to change which MFA server is active.

Having this functionality would be useful to z/VM Systems Programmers and for RACF/MFA Security Administrators as a way to quickly assess and potentially alter the current MFA server environment if it is determined to be necessary. For z/VM system...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Enable SSH under OMVS to accept RACF password

I go into OMVS I type ssh userid@host I get back 'FOTS3322 Passwords may not be entered from 3270 terminals' If I can logon to TSO with a userid and password, why can't I logon via SSH with a userid and password? Here are my suggestions: (1) In th...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

General Settings / Home Page info to be displayed on all pages

Update zOSMF Home Page settings to be displayed on all parges, and not just the login page.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Allow IDCAMS to INITIALIZE a VSAM dataset during (or after) DEFINE

CICS is unable to open newly defined empty VSAM datasets as it requires at least one CI to be formatted. To overcome this requires use of an OEM or open source program (VSAMINIT is the common one) to write and then delete a record in the VSAM data...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Planned for future release

Allow filtering out data sets with unsupported allocations

For example, allow ignoring PDS data sets with "0" directory blocks. When the option is enabled, such data sets would be reported and the overall return code would be set to "4" / Warning rather than error "8" .
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

CTRACE filter for IP Address for SSL traces

When taking an SSL trace for ATTLS connections you have to take traces for all ATTLS connections. This leads to a lot of noise in the trace.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

Supporting all date and time formats of DB2

We use the DB2 date and time formats in our programs. Therefor it is necessary that the language environment - that is the software LE - supports all date and time formats that DB2 supports.Supports means (examples):- day-zero is accepted (00-00-0...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

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